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Saturday, February 23, 2013

The subject is firearms and here is a policy quote from the
1st manufacturer/supplier on the list.

“If a product that we manufacture is not
legal for a private citizen to own in a jurisdiction, we will not sell that
product to a law-enforcement agency in that jurisdiction”.

At the risk of using up my quota of clichés for the day it
strikes me as both “cutting off your nose to spite your face and “sticking to
your guns”. While I don’t see Remington
or Smith & Wesson on the list, I do see 37 for profit companies that are
willing to put principle over profit just as the OWS people advocated.

2 comments:

I'm sure there's plenty of calculated profit to go with that principle. Rallying your base and serving as warning to other states/municipalities considering similar limits chief among them.

Show me a guns/ammo manufacturer who has voluntarily shown even hinted at genuine reflection post Newtown on the value-vs-cost of the assault products they offer and I will show you principle over profit.